View from the bridge

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[…] in major sums from the party’s big donors. Labour Together has received more than £850,000 since the election – including more than £320,000 each from hedge fund boss Martin Taylor and Lord David Sainsbury, plus £200,000 from Gary Lubner, the boss of Belron, a firm specialising in vehicle glass repair.6 *new* Like a bat […]

Kincora: abuse and the British state

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Lisburn, Peter Broderick, is quoted as saying that he had seen the document and approved it for release. ‘This week, for the first time, Peter Broderick, Wallace’s boss at the time (1974), confirmed to me that he saw the document (The Tara press brief HIA inquiry disclosed MoD document KIN-102649. See p. 149 at […]

Inside the Trump Administration

Lobster Issue 83 (Summer 2022) FREE

[PDF file]: […] have been thwarted, if only Trump had not been betrayed by so many of those around him. Mitch McConnell was busy waging ‘a behind-the-scenes war against the Boss’ and Trump was absolutely right when he described him as ‘a dumb son of a bitch’. (p. 240) After the election, Navarro prepared his own report […]

Gone but not forgotten… (Donald Trump book reviews)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] presidents who have failed miserably in office, we never had one that had a long career of fraud and deceit before being elected. We elected a crime boss who has no common decency.’ (p. xii) What he has trouble comprehending is that millions of people voted for this man and still support him. Smock’s […]

Ian Cameron (obituary)

Lobster Issue 82 (Winter 2021) FREE

[PDF file]: […] to this book represents peanuts and the danger is that those without experience might misjudge it. I had occasion recently to look again at Gordon Winter’s Inside BOSS and Peter Hain’s book on the attempt by BOSS and our own spooks to frame him for the Putney Bank snatch. There’s not a lot of […]

Left Out: The Inside Story of Labour Under Corbyn, and, This Land: The Story of a Movement

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] majority two years later with his ‘Get Brexit Done’ pitch. Jones interviews many Labour participants and blends the results with his activist understanding, concluding that his former boss, McDonnell, was ‘Labour’s lost leader’. He provides no index and leaves the hardback reader to input on screen footnotes for which he only offers URL links. […]

The Mandelson legacy

Lobster Issue 91 (2025) FREE

[PDF file]: […] who might have impeded that progress. By then Mandelson had developed several influential networks of support. One was at the BBC. John (now Lord) Birt, his former boss at London Weekend Television (LWT), had become Margaret Thatcher’s choice as Director-General of the BBC. He brought with him many of Mandelson’s former colleagues, including Samir […]

Code of Conduct: Why We Need to Fix Parliament – and How to Do It by Chris Bryant

Lobster Issue 87 (2023) FREE

[PDF file]: […] must be the Good Samaritan: ‘here was the case of a member of a despised ethnic minority engaged in direct action, while Pilate was the established undemocratic boss’. Blair smiled that smile and ‘begged me to understand that the powerful were also deserving of our political sympathy’.2 Being taken in by Tony Blair back […]

Newsinger Bryant copy

Lobster Issue

[…] must be the Good Samaritan: ‘here was the case of a member of a despised ethnic minority engaged in direct action, while Pilate was the established undemocratic boss’. Blair smiled that smile and ‘begged me to understand that the powerful were also deserving of our political sympathy’.2 Being taken in by Tony Blair back […]

Whose Prospect?

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] Prospect? Solomon Hughes Prospect magazine have confirmed a series of connections to the British secret state, including dinner meetings, seminars and taking on the son of MI6 boss John Scarlett as an intern. The links with the security services are a potential embarrassment for the magazine, which has been compared to Encounter, a centre […]

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